by Adam Mahoney | Jul 25, 2026 | Alabama, black communities, Climate Change, Environmental Racism, News, Transportation
Timothy Williams’ family has lived in the same community for over 150 years, but he is afraid that they are one big storm away from losing it all. Eight years ago, the Alabama Department of Transportation widened the highway that runs just a few yards from Williams’ home in Shiloh. Since then, every time it rains, water has flowed down the highway, flooding his land with enough force to…
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by Jesse Coburn | Nov 21, 2025 | car crash, Department of Transportation, Deregulation, News, PHMSA, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Pipelines, Public Safety, railroads, Sean Duffy, Transportation, Trump Administration
On its face, the rule proposed in July by the country’s pipeline-safety regulator seemed innocuous. The regulator, a division of the U.S. Department of Transportation called the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, was proposing what looked like minor, bureaucratic changes to its process for issuing regulatory waivers. Between the lines, PHMSA watchers saw a much more…
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